Morita1-4 at 2016 Minebea Cup

Kyoto, Japan

SKIP
Yasuhiro
Morita

Third
Katsuaki
Yasui

Second
Kosuke
Yuki

Lead
Jun
Nakamura

Games:	5
Record:	1W - 4L
PF/G:	8.24
PA/G:	11.18
Hammer Efficiency:	0.27
Steal Defense:	0.07
Force Efficiency:	0.14
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

Yasuhiro Morita (Kyoto, JPN) finished 1-4 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morita lost 9-8 to Taiki Natsuizaka (Aomori City, JPN), then responded with a 9-4 win over Hideaki Nakamura (Okayama, JPN). Morita went on to lose 10-3 against Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN). Morita lost 7-6 to Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Nagano, JPN). Morita lost 8-2 to Arihito Kasahara (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Morita earned 0.180 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 26 spots the World Ranking Standings into 495th place overall with 0.257 total points. Morita ranks 228th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.180 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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